Hannah was born in 1669. She was the daughter of John Sackett and Abigail Hannum. She passed away in 1749.
Hannah SACKETT (1669-1749) married Thomas Dewey (1665-1690) about 1688, residents of Westfield Massachusetts.[1]
Hannah Dewey of Westfield married Benjamin Newberry of Windsor 3 Mar 1691/2[2]
The widow Hannah Newberry, lived in Windsor with her four young children. In 1711 she married Captain John Merriman, a widower with eight children. Before their marriage Merriman had signed an agreement allowing Hannah to keep some of her property and make financial provisions for her Newberry children. John decided to renege on this agreement and Hannah refused without arbitration and outside advice. From there a set of grievances one against the other began. She claiming that among other things that he was of a "quarrelling discontented frame" and he calling her "the most wicked of all women" etc. In 1713, she took her children and returned to Windsor. John immediately tried to file for divorce, but was informed he must spend three years trying to reconcile the marriage. Hannah claimed she would rather go to jail than return to him. He threatened to chain her to the bedstead. After filing for divorce in 1716 the court wouldn't grant the divorce for insufficient cause. Divorce was finally granted in Superior Court in Oct 1718. A very good accounting of this is given in Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789 by Cornelia Hughes Dayton, publ. UNC Press Books, 2012, from which this shortened account was drawn.[3][4]
Abstract of will of John Sacket of Westfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay. (Full text is in Weygant, The Sacketts of America). Date: 10 May 1718. Proved: 20 May 1719. Beneficiaries: Wife Sarah, use of all estate real & personal during her lifetime. Son John, 5 shillings. Grandchildren, children of son William, 5 shillings. Grandchildren, children of son Samuel, 5 shillings. Grandson William, son of Samuel dec'd, after wife's death, team & tackling, 2 plows, harrow. Daughters, Hannah Merryman, Mary Maudsley, Abigail King, after wife's death, rest of moveable estate in equal division, except for great brass Kettle which goes to Mary. Rachel Stiles, a cow & a pair of sheets. Executor: grandson William. Son John appointed administrator by probate judge until grandson William reaches 21.
Died 1749[7]
Marriage
Husband Thomas Dewey.
Wife Hannah Sackett
Marriage
ABT 1688
New England
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